TimeLens Teaching

I have been teaching Social Studies for over 10 years in the New York metropolitan area. Over the years, I've taught and helped design course curricula for U.S. History, World History, finance, sociology, and A.P. U.S. Government and Politics. In 2024, I spoke at the NCSS Annual Conference in Boston, the AI Literacy Summit in northern New Jersey, and the NJECC Annual New Jersey Educational Technology Conference, leading sessions to help teachers on how to use artificial intelligence to create immersive and interactive lessons.

I prefer a discussion-oriented and student-centered classroom, in which students are doing the "work" of history by hypothesizing, evaluating evidence, and creating evidence-based claims about the past. I use simulations, technology, discussions, and debates to keep students in dialogue with each other. I also understand that teachers need to lead the classroom to model historical thinking and to stabilize content knowledge.

I've been named a W!SE Gold Star Teacher in financial literacy twice. I have led PLCs in “Facilitating and Teaching Interdisciplinary Connections in Social Studies and English in American Studies” (2020-2021), “Vertical Articulation between World History Honors and AP US History” (2022-2023), and “Teaching with and for Artificial Intelligence” (2023-2024). I've led sessions at the NCSS Annual Conference in Boston, the AI Literacy Summit in northern New Jersey, and the NJECC Annual New Jersey Educational Technology Conference, instructing attendees on how teachers can create “navigable” learning environments using generative AI and Google Slideshows.

- BA in History and Political Science from Montclair State University - BA in Classics from Rutgers University - MA in Classics from the University of Washington- Seattle - MA in the Teaching of Social Studies from Teachers College- Columbia University